What stands in the way of technology-mediated patient safety improvements? A study of facilitators and barriers to physicians' use of electronic health records.

Richard J. Holden

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What stands in the way of technology-mediated patient safety improvements? A study of facilitators and barriers to physicians' use of electronic health records.

December 21, 2011

Holden RJ. J Patient Saf. 2011;7(4):193-203.

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This qualitative study identifies user, system, organizational, and environmental factors that help and hinder uptake of electronic health records.

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